Vocational Expert in White Plains, NY

For Westchester County one court page covers the Supreme and County Court of Westchester County together, identifies their White Plains location by street address only and lists a Matrimonial Part and a Medical Malpractice Part among the Supreme Court's parts; it states that County Courts sit in each county outside New York City, that among the County, City and Town and Village Courts only the County Court tries felonies and that County Courts also have limited authority over the smaller civil claims. The court system's court locator places the Westchester County Surrogate's Court and the Westchester Family Court's White Plains location at that same address, with Family Court locations in New Rochelle and Yonkers as well, and lists City Courts in Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Peekskill, Rye, White Plains and Yonkers. Appeals from the Supreme Court, Westchester County, are heard by the Appellate Division, Second Department, which lists Westchester among its ten downstate counties, hears the civil appeals from the Supreme Court, the Surrogate's Court, the Family Court and the Court of Claims there, and sits in Brooklyn.

The Workers' Compensation Board's locations page assigns every county to a district office: claims arising in Westchester County are heard through the Board's Manhattan district office. The locations page lists a White Plains customer service center within the Manhattan District. The Southern District of New York, the U.S. district court for Westchester County, hears cases in Manhattan, White Plains and Poughkeepsie. White Plains, where the county's Supreme and County Court sit, is one of the three cities in which the Southern District hears cases.

In the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages for January to March 2026, the largest private employment supersectors in Westchester County are education and health services, trade, transportation and utilities, professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and financial activities. White Plains belongs to the New York-Newark-Jersey City metropolitan area, and the labor data panel on the page reports the metropolitan area's own wages and unemployment rate, as it does on each New York page this site carries an area record for. The wage and employment data published for the New York-Newark-Jersey City area also covers Bergen County, where KWVRS is headquartered.

KWVRS accepts New York matters from its headquarters in Hackensack, New Jersey, and writes every Westchester County report to the disclosure format the court or agency hearing the case expects.